SEIU deals Governor's wage cuts for home care workers one more legal blow
OAKLAND, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California home care recipients, care providers and their union, SEIU, are hailing another legal victory in their campaign to prevent the Schwarzenegger Adm...

United American Nurses Pledges Support for Legislation
SILVER SPRING, Md., May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- RNs from across the country today vowed support for legislation that will protect nurses from dangerous and debilitating patient handling injuries. The Nurse and Health Care Worker Pr...

Revolutionary New Hygiene Product Provides Extended Efficacy for All Day Protection Against Deadly Bacteria
TORRANCE, Calif., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- SKWPartners LLC announced today the extended U.S. launch of SkinWear, www.skinwearusa.com , the only extended-protection, all-in-one h...

New Orleans, LA Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence, Boyd Professor, and Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair of Retinal Degenerative Diseases Research at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, will present new research findings showing that an omega three fatty...

Researchers have identified a gene that controls the rapid production and differentiation of the stem cells that produce all blood cell types -- a discovery that could eventually open the door to more streamlined treatments for leukemia and other blood cancers, in which blood cells proliferate ou...

INDIANAPOLIS, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) announced today during a lease signing event that it has become the first tenant of New York City's new Alexandria Center for Science and Technology at East River Science Park, a development that sh...

St. Jude study shows intramuscular injection of peramivir for eight
days protected mice from lethal H5N1 influenza virus infection and
inhibited virus replication, supporting the use of this drug to
control influenza during a pandemic
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
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LA JOLLA, Calif., April 9, 2009Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine have demonstrated in mice that transplanted pancreatic precursor cells are protected from the immune system when encapsulated i...

Researchers have identified a gene that controls the rapid production and differentiation of the stem cells that produce all blood cell types -- a discovery that could eventually open the door to more streamlined treatments for leukemia and other blood cancers, in which blood cells proliferate out...

February 3, 2009 (Bronx, NY) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a deadly microbe evades the human immune system and causes disease.
The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), may h...

Research on the mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, stroke, dementia, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, to name a few, has taken a step forward thanks to the work of biological sciences Ph.D. student Sonia Do Carmo, supervised by Professor ric Rassart of the Un...

The Wildlife Conservation Society, the Government of Cameroon, and other partners have collaborated to create a new national park to help protect the world's most endangered great ape: the Cross River gorilla.
The park now forms part of an important trans-boundary protected area with Nigeria's ...

Children who receive all recommended flu vaccine appear to be less likely to catch the respiratory virus that the CDC estimates hospitalizes 20,000 children every year.
This is according to new research published in Pediatrics by the University of Rochester Medical Center. The study looked at...

INDIANAPOLIS, March 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY ) announced its support for the Pathway for Biosimilars Act. The U.S. has a 25-year history of success with laws promoting the discovery of new, chemical-based medicines and providing an abbreviated approval...

- Study demonstrates 'Best buy in public health'
LONDON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A study published today
confirms that in the ten years since its initiation, the international
effort to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) has made unprecedented
strides towards ridding the ...

BOSTON, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Replikins, Ltd. has announced
development of a chemically synthesized vaccine specific to a Taura
Syndrome virus structure based on its patented Replikins(TM) technology.
When the vaccine was administered orally to shrimp, 91% survived a
challenge by the lethal...

An experimental, combination vaccine against Ebola and Marburg viruses using virus-like particles (VLPs) provides complete protection against infection in monkeys. Researchers from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) report their results today (Feb. 26) at ...

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...optosis-inducing proteins: ced-3 and ced-4 .
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